new Asiatic Mammals. G^7 



tiu^ foramen lacerum postenus. Profile of skull as A. bin- 

 turong. Cheek-teeth extremely reduced, small, and rounded. 

 Pi rounded, with a very small protocone ; mi much smaller 

 than jt?4, with the inner half much narrower than the 

 outer. 



A. pageU differs as much from A. hinturong (Raffl.) from 

 Further India, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Java, as it 

 does from A. whitei, Allen, from Palawan (photographs of 

 which have been kindly forwarded by Prof. J. A. Allen, of 

 New York). In A. hinturong (type locality : Mahicca) the 

 bullae are strongly inflated between carotic canal and the 

 foramen lacerum posterius ; in the specimens of A. whitei 

 available for examination the occipital region is broken, so 

 that a comparison of the bullae is impossible. But the 

 differences in the structure of the cheek-teeth are evident 

 enough, and sliow the distinctness of the three species. In 

 A. hitifurong p^ is distinctly triangular ; in A. whitei it is 

 obtusely oval (or better pentagonal) and much broader than 

 long ; in ^. pageli it is very obtusely triangular and much 

 reduced. 



Dimensions a f type : — 



Head and body 960 mm. ; tail 890. (Taken from the dried 

 skin.) 



Skull: basilar length 120; zygomatic width 77-0 ; mas- 

 toid width 54*lj palatilar length 69'5 ; intertemporal con- 

 striction 36 ; length of upper tooth-row (c-Wg) 40 ; pi, 

 length 7*5, greatest oblique diameter 7*9. 



Type. Female adult. Royal Zoological Museum, Berlin : 

 A. 85. 10. 49. Collected by Dr. PageJ. 



Typ)e locality. Sandakan, N. Borneo. 



(Specimens examined from La Datu, N. Borneo, and from 

 Sarawak. 



Viverricula pallida taivana, subsp. 



An insular representative of Viverricula pallida, Gray, from 

 Southern China, chiefly distinguished from it by its shorter 

 coat, more definite markings, brighter ground-colour, and 

 smaller, quite differently shaped bulise. 



Pelage much shorter than in V. pallida, but still longer than 

 in V. mulaccensis or rasse. Consequently the markings are 

 much more distinct. Ground-colour of upper parts about 

 Ridgway's " cream-colour,^' whereas in V. pallida it is some- 

 where between *' ochraceous buff" and " buff.'^ Longitudinal 

 dorsal stripes " seal-brown" ; neck suffused " cream-colour " 

 and " seal-brown " ; chin white. A dark transverse stripe 

 on throat usually present. Chest blackish brown ; belly dirty 



